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The Supreme Court dealt a setback Tuesday to civil rights and privacy advocates who oppose the Bush administration's warrantless wiretapping program. The justices, without comment, turned down an appeal from the American Civil Liberties Union to let it pursue a lawsuit against the program that began shortly after the Sept. 11 terror attacks.
Dick Vermeil, who coached the St. Louis Rams to their first Super Bowl championship in 2000, doubts dirty tricks prevented the franchise from winning it all again under Mike Martz in 2002.
The nation's spy court said Tuesday that it will not release its documents regarding the Bush administration's warrantless wiretapping program.
The Justice Department has reopened a long-dormant inquiry into the government's warrantless wiretapping program, a major policy shift only days into the tenure of Attorney General Michael Mukasey.
A top Democratic leader opened the door Tuesday to granting U.S. telecommunications companies retroactive legal immunity for helping the government conduct electronic surveillance without court orders, but said the Bush administration must first detail what those companies did.
The Justice Department would have to reveal to Congress the details of all electronic surveillance conducted without court orders since Sept. 11, 2001, including the so-called Terrorist Surveillance Program, if a new Democratic wiretapping bill is approved.
Sheldon Brown and the Eagles hoped a blitz would rattle Tom Brady. One problem: Every time the Eagles rushed Brady in the Super Bowl, the Patriots nullified the defensive attack with screen passes. Lots of them. On almost every play defensive coordinator Jim Johnson called for a blitz, the Patriots used the short pass to confuse the Eagles.
It's not just the NFL's players who are getting into trouble these days. Commissioner Roger Goodell is investigating whether the Patriots illegally videotaped the opposing coaches during their Week 1 victory over the New York Jets. New England coach Bill Belichick apologized Wednesday — for what, it wasn't clear — and confirmed that he has spoken to Goodell about an "interpretation" of league rules.
This videotape needs no interpretation: New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick walked out of his news conference Wednesday when pressed repeatedly about the sideline spying scandal that landed him on NFL commissioner Roger Goodell's crowded docket.
A divided federal appeals court rejected a lawsuit Friday challenging President Bush's domestic spying program without ruling on the issue of whether warrantless wiretapping is legal.
A federal judge who used to authorize wiretaps in terrorist and espionage cases criticized President Bush's decision to order warrantless surveillance after the Sept. 11 attacks.
Security cameras are monitoring government workers in northeastern Malaysia to keep them from slacking off or vanishing for extended tea breaks, a newspaper said Monday.
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales expanded Congress' access Wednesday to classified documents detailing the government's domestic spying program but still didn't satisfy several lawmakers demanding information about surveillance.
The Bush administration sought on Thursday to drop its appeal of a federal court ruling that concluded the government's domestic spying program is unconstitutional, saying the entire issue is moot since the surveillance now is monitored by a secret court.
A year after disclosure of a domestic spying program that President Bush maintained was within his authority to operate, the administration shifted its position and said it would seek the approval of an independent panel of federal judges.
Nigeria on Tuesday charged six people, including men from Ireland, Israel and Romania, with illegally obtaining classified defense documents.
The Bush administration can continue its warrantless surveillance program while it appeals a judge's ruling that the program is unconstitutional, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday.
A government lawyer used a dramatic scenario of a nuclear attack on Washington to illustrate his arguments Tuesday in defense of President Bush's warrantless wiretapping program.
A federal judge on Thursday struck down President Bush's warrantless surveillance program, saying it violated the rights to free speech and privacy, as well as the separation of powers enshrined in the Constitution.
A federal panel of judges has consolidated 17 lawsuits throughout the United States filed against telephone companies accused of assisting the Bush administration to monitor Americans' communications without warrants.
The American Civil Liberties Union released a compilation of covert government surveillance of war protesters and other political activists in California, decrying it as evidence of a "greater expansion of government power and the abuse of power" since the 2001 terrorist attacks.
The Bush administration has asked federal judges in New York and Michigan to dismiss a pair of lawsuits filed over the National Security Agency's domestic eavesdropping program, saying litigating them would jeopardize state secrets.
The government has abruptly ended an inquiry into the warrantless eavesdropping program because the National Security Agency refused to grant Justice Department lawyers the necessary security clearance to probe the matter.
AT&T; Inc. and an Internet advocacy group are waging in federal court a privacy battle that could expose the reach of the Bush administration's secretive domestic wiretapping program.
An article co-written by a former Congressman and carried by the San Francisco Chronicle has gained much attention recently as it shines light on a coordinated federal government program to build detention camps at undisclosed locations within the United States. "Since 9/11, …
A bill that would set up a government commission to study U.S.-based terrorism was the target of a protest by civil libertarians Tuesday in downtown Portland. The measure, sponsored in the Senate by Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, would establish a 12-
President George W. Bush and his director of National Intelligence, Mike McConnell, are telling the American people that an unaccountable executive branch is necessary for their protection.
From Tuesday February 19th, ACLU...This morning, we got some bad news: the Supreme Court turned down our petition for it to hear ACLU v. NSA, our landmark case against the Bush administration's warrantless wiretapping program.
Today on Fox News Sunday, Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol mourned that an "emboldened" Congress refused to give telecommunications companies retroactive immunity for cooperating with the administration's warrantless wiretapping.
Grim talk of terrorism is again making headlines. First came the announcement that the United States will try the masterminds of the 9/11 plot, through military commissions—contemporary kangaroo courts.
More than 30 conservative Democrats joined with the House Republicans Wednesday to defeat a measure that would have extended the expiration date of a temporary spying law by 21 days.
On the eve of a vote to give telephone companies immunity for their alleged participation in the National Security Agency's warrantless wiretap program, White House spokesperson Dana Perino admitted that the companies actually spied. Because they were patriotic.
The US Constitution and the principle that no one is above the law suffered a numbing setback, Tuesday, when every Republican Senator, Independent Joe Lieberman and 18 faux Democrats voted to gut the Constitution's Fourth Amendment, one of the most important bulwarks again tyrann …
After more than a year of heated political wrangling, the Senate handed the White House a major victory Tuesday by voting to broaden the government's spy powers after giving legal protection to phone companies that cooperated in President Bush's warrantless eavesdropping prog …
"... overwhelming voted Tuesday evening to legalize the Bush warrantless wiretapping program and immunize the telecoms that helped it spy on Americans."
Senator Chris Dodd spoke for 2.5 hours on the Senate floor last night to promote his amendment to the FISA Amendment Act . Dodd's amendement would strike down retroactive immunity for the telecom industry's warrantless and possibly illegal spying on their customers.
-- Bolivia President Evo Morales declared a U.S. diplomat "undesirable" Monday amid allegations that the United States asked a visiting scholar and Peace Corps volunteers to keep tabs on Cubans and Venezuelans in Bolivia.
"In San Francisco the "secret room" is Room 641A at 611 Folsom Street, ... So what does the Narus STA 6400 do? "The (Narus) STA Platform consists of ... "
By Kevin Poulsen February 06, 2008 | 3:27:14 PMCategories: Surveillance The FBI sought and won approval to use its CIPAV spyware program from the secretive
"March 05, 2001 ,The agency last month changed the name of its Carnivore application to DCS1000—for digital collection system—FBI spokesman Paul Bresson said"
".. seeking information about the orbits of CIA "Keyhole" satellites. "To this day, I don't know if it was a spy trying to make serious contact or a hoax."
Crooks and Liars » Chris Dodd Does It. Reid pulls Telecom Immunity ... Harry Reid tabled the FISA bill just a few minutes ago. Thanks to the many C&Lers;
WASHINGTON - A Defense Department analyst and a former engineer for Boeing Co. were charged Monday in separate spy cases for allegedly handing over military secrets to the Chinese government, the Justice Department said. ADVERTISEMENT
"I was told to provide the names, addresses and activities of any Venezuelan or Cuban doctors or field workers I come across during my time here," Fulbright scholar John Alexander van Schaick told ABCNews.com in an interview in La Paz.
It is imperative that you as representatives of We the People uphold the letter and spirit of the Constitution you promised to protect and defend. You cannot permit Mr.
So, yesterday at 3:15 pm, Barack Obama voted with the rest of the Senate Democrats for this amendment. At 3:15 pm, Clinton was nowhere to be found. She was likely preparing for her 4 pm press conference where she informed the nation she was self-financing her campaign.
to be a spy or a terrorist. Instead the judges will be allowed to evaluate descriptions of how the filters are designed not to capture purely domestic
Under intense pressure from the grassroots and netroots, Congress extended the so-called "Protect America Act" for 15 more days. New deadline: February 16.
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